GI diet: It’s the best if you want to lose weight - It’s been said a few times, and now even the prestigious Cochrane Review agrees: the best way to lose weight is by adopting a low-glycemic index diet...

Drugs for weight loss - Medicine peddles two types of drugs to help us lose weight: amphetamines and drugs which act on the central nervous system as appetite suppressants. M...

Weight Loss: Calories don’t count, good food does - The only way to lose weight, according to the prevailing calorie theory, is by exercising more or eating less because weight loss only happens when...

My weight-loss and liver-cleansing diet bonuses - To lose weight and cleanse my liver, I put myself on a diet of salads and cooked vegetables, little protein and hardly any fat. I drink copious amount...

Weight-loss Surgery: Nearly 3 per cent died afterwards - Nearly a third of obese people who die following weight-loss surgery do so by their own hand. Overall, nearly 3 per cent of patients who have the sur...

Weight loss and low fat diets - One of the major risk factors for osteoporosis is being too thin. Once the ovaries stop producing oestrogen, a woman's body keeps on making small amou...

How to lose weight: the diet that really works - It s been reckoned that the average American will gain 8 lbs over the Christmas holiday and we don t suppose the average Briton is too far behind M...

The Milk Diet: Lose weight, but increase your cancer risk - People impressed by the milk-only diet adopted by one obese man, who shed 70kg (11 stone) in a year, may want to think twice before they try it. Taxi...